Richard Jewell
2019, crime, drama, history
131 minutes
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational...
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9.0
2020-02-02
Eastwood presents the horrible fickleness of heroism with Richard Jewell, an intense and engaging retelling of a dark chapter in American history. Read more
8.0
2020-04-27
Richard Jewell, is a brilliant film from the legendary Eastwood who knows how to handle any material. Read more
8.0
2020-02-19
The rest of the cast and the pace of direction make this a well-filmed, gripping, David and Goliath narrative. Read more
8.0
2020-01-28
The strength in the casts’ collective performance ensures that this fascinating narrative makes for much more of a convincing effort from Eastwood, far more in line with the expectations that a project with his name attached to it should bring. Read more
8.0
2019-12-18
Much like Mike Leigh, Eastwood has a gift for mining comedy from scenarios that have high personal and political stakes. Read more
7.5
2021-01-13
Both Kathy Bates and, in particular, Sam Rockwell deliver genuinely affecting performances as the people who have the titular character’s back. Read more
6.0
2020-02-03
Polemics aside, the director, prompted by an immediate and fluid storytelling, mounted some scenes that not always feel authentic. However, he makes a clear-eyed look about the failings and transgressions of American law enforcement agencies in their urgency to find a culprit. Hauser fuels this uneven account with an excellent performance. Read more
6.0
2019-12-13
Richard Jewell‘s story is a good one, a tragic one, and a cautionary tale that deserves telling. And the film it deserves – the one where a common man finds the will to fight for his dignity – is in here, you just have to wade through some blanket scapegoating to find it. Read more
5.0
2019-12-13
What might've been a timely parable is instead presented as a capably crafted and acted, yet frustratingly reductive screed in Richard Jewell. Read more
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8.0
2020-03-03
Eastwood geeft Richard Jewell de eer en het krediet dat hij verdient, in een vlot, oprecht en goedgemaakt drama. Read more
7.0
2020-02-28
Een waargebeurde drama met een verhaal dat gehoord moet worden, ondersteunt door acteurs van de hoogste klasse die allemaal geweldig werk afleveren. Dit is zonder twijfel Clint Eastwood's beste film van de laatste tien jaar. Read more
5.0
2020-02-08
We zijn geen beulen en pinkten dan ook af & toe een traantje weg bij de tragedie, maar het is alles behalve aanvaardbaar voor een Eastwood-productie. Read more
5.0
2020-01-12
Richard Jewell laat zien dat een prima verhaal niet automatisch zorgt voor een goede film. Read more
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